period

NOUN /piriəd/
6 LETTERS · 3 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH P

period is a valid 6-letter word worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
P3E1R1I1O1D2
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 =9 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 18TRIPLE WORD → 27
MEANING

What does period mean?

NOUN · 7 SENSES
1

An amount of time.

“a time period of 30 years”

“hastened the period of time of his recovery”

2

The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.

3

A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed.

“ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods”

4

A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.

“in England they call a period a stop”

5

(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games.

6

The end or completion of something.

“death put a period to his endeavors”

“a change soon put a period to my tranquility”

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7

The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.

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